Hexylresorcinol
Hexylresorcinol appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in face creams.
What it triggers
- Vegan originNot sureorigin not on file
- FragranceNonot a perfume ingredient
- ParabenNonot a preservative of this family
- SulfateNonot a sulfate surfactant
- SiliconeNonot a silicone
- AlcoholNonot a drying alcohol
What it does
Hexylresorcinol appears on 2 ingredient lists in our database, most often in face creams.
It does not belong to any of the six groups we check, so it never changes a verdict.
We have not written the plain-language note for this ingredient yet; the facts above come straight from how it is classified.
Functions: antimicrobial
Products with Hexylresorcinol
in 2 products
- no photoJanssen Cosmetics Leke Karşıtı Renk Açıcı KremJanssen Cosmetics · face cream
- no photoFacetheory Peptide Firming Eye CreamFacetheory · eye cream
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In the EU ingredient database
Functions listed by CosIng
- antimicrobial
- antimicrobial: Preventing and/or slowing down microbial growth.
CAS 136-77-6 · EC 205-257-4
EU regulation
Not on a restricted-substances annex. Listed as an allowed cosmetic ingredient.
Source: CosIng, European Commission. Informative, no legal value; the regulation text is the reference.
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